Levy's booth generally has something that catches my eye. This year it was the car tire and barbed wire straps. The car tire straps are made from
real tire rubber. Fortunately, the barbed wire straps don't use real barbed wire.

Apple hasn't been making the original iMac for years now but still the industrial design lives on. These stands are actually
kind of cool in their simplicity. They will accomodate either electric or acoustic instruments.

After conquering the world of migrating kick drums last year,
the PhatFoot folks have moved on to other challenges. These address a problem that I've run into myself
many times, wandering keyboard pedals.

So many products I've seen at NAMM are touted as revolutionary but are far from it. So… a revolutionary capo? Well… yes.
Instead of a mechanical or spring mechanism, you simply squeeze it onto the neck. You release it with a little lever on the back.

It appears that there's revolution in the air in the capo world. The G-Band capo is used to change the tuning for only one
or two strings at a time. A simple use for one of these would be to tune to drop D and G-Band it back up to E. The creative possibilities
are wide ranging.

This guitar stand is extremely adjustable. The arms that the guitar rests on will telescope out to accommodate acoustic guitars and
those arms can also be moved up and down the length of the stand. That's godsend for oddly-shaped guitars. Now where do you suppose you could
find some of those? ;)

Footlose has been busy refining their wireless amp/effects switching technology since 2003 when I first saw them
at NAMM. They've increased the range of the system and have created an in-guitar system with buttons on the pickguard.

What is Disnortion you say? It's either how someone with a speech impediment says distortion or it's an overdrive/fuzz/octaver all run in parallel.
This makes a nice addition to their envelope phaser when you drive it with the buffered clean signal
from the Disnortion.

The allows you to run multiple effects loops, amp switches, MIDI, and power back and forth between your pedal board and your amp in a
single bundled cable. You can either set it all up using their pigtails or you can have them wire up a custom snake for you.

Our friends at Lanyao bring us leather guitar straps with metal scary things that have eyes that flash red and blue.
They also make a leather wrist strap that holds spare picks because guitar players just can't wear enough leather, or
apparently, have enough scary flashy things.

These are semi-precious stone picks cut into the shape of a heart. When you're not playing you can drop it into the brooch and pin it on.
A portion of their proceeds go to the Human Kindness Foundation.

Don't be surprised if you find that the product or the company you see
on these pages has ceased to exist, particularly as the pages get older.
One function of the NAMM Oddities is that of a historical archive of
attempted products.These web pages are not associated with or sponsored
by NAMM